[AccessD] On DB Bloat, Bad DB Design, and various

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue May 25 07:57:29 CDT 2004


On 25 May 2004 at 7:45, Scott Marcus wrote:

> 
> Someone else mentioned not limiting fields to 2 letters for state
> abbreviations. Why not? When the abbreviations jump to 3 letters, I'll
> make the field bigger. That's just part of my job. 
> 

And who pays for that work to be done?

Do you  stick the client with a bill for a modification that 
shouldn't have been needed or do you wear the cost of the time 
yourself.

What if you've got the same app rolled out in lot's of different 
places. It can get quite expensive to provide updates to all the 
sites.
 
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